How healthy is your county? (Gallery)
Philadelphia is again the unhealthiest among Pennsylvania's 67 counties, according to the "County Health Rankings& RoapMaps" report issued Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
The annual county-by-county rankings take into consideration a variety of factors for the analysis, including health outcomes, health behavior, clinical care, social and economic determinants and physical environment.
Philadelphia's low score reflects… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - March 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John George Source Type: news
UW team finds key to common cancer pathway
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researchers Richard A. Anderson and Vincent Cryns reports the discovery of an unexpected regulator of the critical protein protein p53, opening the door to the development of drugs that could target it. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 18, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey, new UW Oshkosh research shows
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the Tyrannosaurus rex showed signs that it would grow up to be a ferocious predator. In a study published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Peerj--the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, UWO scientists reported evidence that a juvenile T. rex fed on a large plant-eating dinosaur, even though it lacked the bone-crushing abilities it would develop as an adult. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 11, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
THOR wrangles complex microbiomes into a model for improving them
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin developed a community they named THOR, three species of bacteria isolated from soybean roots and grown together. The complex community of microbes developed new behaviors together that couldn't be predicted from the individual members alone -- they grew tougher structures known as biofilms, changed how they moved across their environment, and controlled the release of a novel antibiotic. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) By analyzing troves of genetic data and considering a vast number of possible ways to examine it, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists now have a high degree of confidence that horseshoe crabs do indeed belong within the arachnids. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 8, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Google Doodle Celebrates Mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya: ‘One of the Most Influential Thinkers of Her Generation’
Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya overcame personal and political hurdles and had a lasting impact on a range of scientific fields, from weather forecasting to cardiovascular science and oceanography.
On Thursday Google celebrated her life and achievements with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 97th birthday.
Ladyzhenskaya was best known for her studies on partial differential equations. Marshall Slemrod, a mathematician with the University of Wisconsin, told the New York Times, “If you believe your weather forecasts, you have to solve the exact equations that she studied.”
Google called her &...
Source: TIME: Science - March 7, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Madeline Roache Tags: Uncategorized Google onetime Source Type: news
Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable -- but frustratingly untapped -- bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous plastics. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 6, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an infinite pool of liquid may not sound like a recipe for order, but eventually the swarm will go with its own flow. Theoretical modeling led by University of Wisconsin-Madison applied mathematician Saverio Spagnolie shows that the forces generated by different kinds of tiny swimmers will sweep them all up in predictable ways. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 4, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Studies of Deadly Flu Virus, Once Banned, Are Set to Resume
The government will allow research on bird flu that had been halted over safety concerns. But officials have not publicly announced the decision nor explained how it was made. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DENISE GRADY Tags: Research Accidents and Safety Avian Influenza Erasmus Medical Center Health and Human Services Department University of Wisconsin National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Madison (Wis) Rotterdam Source Type: news
Exercise Secrets to a Better Bottom
THURSDAY, Feb. 28, 2019 -- If you ' re bored with doing squats for a better bottom, it ' s time to vary your workout.
For a study sponsored by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), scientists at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse evaluated popular... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Radiation-resistant E. coli evolved in the lab give view into DNA repair
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Scientists in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biochemistry are blasting E. coli bacteria with ionizing radiation once a week to watch evolution happen in real time as the bacteria become radiation resistant. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 26, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Study: No race or gender bias seen in initial NIH grant reviews
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Examinations of National Institutes of Health grants in the last 15 years have shown that white scientists are more likely to be successful in securing funding from the agency than their black peers.A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that bias is unlikely to play out in the initial phase of the process NIH uses to review applications for the billions of federal grant dollars it apportions annually to biology and behavior research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New type of wound dressing shocks patients
While Wound Source estimated that there are over 6,000 types of wound care dressings, the steep number doesn’t stop researchers from testing products for more advanced dressings. Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently developed a new low-cost wound dressing designed to accelerate wound healing.
Here are the details on this innovative wound dressing:
How does this wound dressing work?
While electricity can be beneficial for skin healing, most electrotherapy products require bulky equipment and complex wiring. This new dressing leverages the power of electrical pulses for healing, but is in ...
Source: Advanced Tissue - February 14, 2019 Category: Dermatology Authors: AdvancedTissue Tags: Wound care products wound dressings Source Type: news
New Imaging Method Measures Efficacy of Breast Cancer Therapy
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have discovered a new way to measure the efficacy or failure of hormone therapy for breast cancer patients. A study detailing the findings was published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
The findings showed that positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone (18F-FFNP) has been found to successfully measure changes in progesterone receptor (PR) levels resulting from a short-course estrogen treatment, also known as an estradiol challenge.
Estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer is...
Source: MDDI - February 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: MDDI Staff Tags: Imaging Source Type: news
Cell component breakdown suggests possible treatment for multiple neural disorders
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Research published today (Feb. 11, 2019) by the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals how one mutation causes fragile X, the most common inherited intellectual disability. Fragile X patients have difficulty in learning and language, as well as temper tantrums, hyperactivity and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. The fragile X gene is located on the X chromosome and its mutation affects about 1 in 4,000 boys and 1 in 7,000 girls. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
